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756: Andrew Tate

Familial Abuse & Violence, Rape, Rape Culture, Trafficking

Andrew Tate is an avid Trump advocate, a citizen of both the United States and the United Kingdom, he moved to Romania because rape laws are more lenient there, according to him. He’s been accused of rape and trafficking and has been arrested for trafficking 75 women, forcing them to create pornographic content or perform phone sex. His is currently detained in Romania.

700: Garrett Soldano

Rape Culture

Garrett Soldano, a candidate in the Michigan Republican primary for governor in 2022, opposes abortion and opposes exceptions for rape or incest. He thinks women who are raped and become pregnant should feel inspired that God put them in that situation. Who knows? They could be carrying the next president. As he put it, we need to “defend the DNA.” Yes, he is committed to defending rapists’ DNA.

639: J.D. Vance

Rape Culture

As an abortion opponent, he had to out-extreme the extremists, so he declared he opposed exemptions for rape and incest. He described rape as “somewhat inconvenient.” His actual words were, “It’s not whether a woman should be forced to bring a child to term; it’s whether a child should be allowed to live, even though the circumstances of that child’s birth are somehow inconvenient or a problem to the society.”

631: Benjamin Rajadurai

Rape Culture

Benjamin Rajadurai is the former Executive Director of the College Republicans National Committee and now works for Americans for Tax Reform. During his tenure at CNRC, there was a contentious election for Chair. Two women allege that Rajadurai encouraged them to make sexual “Me Too” allegations against one of the candidates to help the other.

626: Shane Anderson

Enabling, Organizational Cover-Up, Rape Culture

Shane Anderson was the treasurer of the North Dakota District 24 Republicans. He also was the chairman of the recall effort to punish Rep. Dwight Kiefert, a fellow Republican. This is after the local Republicans already voted to censure Kiefert.

What did Kiefert do that was so terrible as to merit censure and recall? He voted with two-thirds of the other North Dakota Republicans to expel sexual harasser Luke Simons. Shane Anderson, who has a local minister’s license at the United Pentecostal Church International, is leading the effort to punish Kiefert for voting to expel an abusive, harassing, sexual predator.

584: Priscilla Giddings

Rape Culture, Retaliation

Priscilla Giddings is an extreme right state representative in Idaho. When Aaron von Ehlinger was accused of rape, several of his supporters accused the teenage intern of lying. Giddings went beyond that, sending out a constituent newsletter doxxing the teen and accusing her of lying. She sent her name, address, and a Facebook post accusing the nineteen-year-old intern of lying out to constituents.

582: Jean Evans

Rape Culture

Jean Evans was the president of the Missouri Republican Party when it refused to advocate for a different candidate after Rick Roeber was revealed to be a child molester. Her statement was stunning, saying “people do strange things when they’re grieving.” In this interview she suggests people should not believe the allegations. She says he…

581: Missouri Republican Party

Rape Culture

The Missouri Republican Party deserves special condemnation for continuing to support the re-election of Rick Roeber despite his children coming forward and revealing how he abused and molested them through their childhood, allegations they made twenty years earlier as well. The party decided to support Roeber, this incestuous child rapist, rather than risk electing a Democrat. They pledged to investigate him if he was elected rather than asking people to vote for someone else.

575: James Clendenin

Rape Culture

James Clendenin was a Republican member of the Wichita City Council when he conspired with Michael O’Donnell and Michael Capps to defame Brandon Whipple in order to keep him from winning the Wichita Mayor’s race. They failed which James Clendenin has proffered as a defense in his trial, suggesting that Whipple wasn’t defamed enough to lose. Yes, Clendenin is that craven.